Privileges for Locomotive Repair Workers

Draft Decision for the C.P.C.[1]

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1)Publishreports about goods trains as a reward for
repairs.

2)Instructthe Commissariat for Railways to draw up such a
plan of rewards as would provide only for essential repairs being made on
goods trains, and not special repairs.

3)Alldata concerning goods train repairs to be collected
and supplemented, and passed on to the Central Statistical Board to be
worked up.

4)TheA.C.C.T.U. and the Moscow, Petrograd, Ivanovo and
Tver trade union councils to be charged with working up the question of
using the best workshops for repairs all 24 hours of the

day.[2]

[1]Thisdraft was moved by Lenin at a meeting of the Council of People’s
Commissars on February 5, 1920, in connection with L. B. Krasin’s report on
the question of granting privileges to workers engaged on locomotive
repairs and the production of spare parts for transport.

Thefollowing resolution was adopted on the report:
’The S.E.C., the Commissariat for Food and the Commissariat for Railways
are instructed to examine in detail the question of all privileges applying
to workers engaged in locomotive repairs and the production of spare parts
for transport, and to present a list of factories to the C.P.C.”

[2]Thequestion of “using the best workshops for repairs all 24 hours
of the day”  was discussed at a meeting of the C.P.C. on March 16,
1920. The question of intensive and uninterrupted work on the repair of
locomotives was raised by Lenin in connection with the catastrophic state
of railway transport, and this led to a number of other questions being
discussed at the same Council meeting, namely: the possibility of placing
an order abroad for locomotives and spare parts for repairing railway
transport, and an inspection of factories and works engaged in the repair
of goods train cars and engines.